cowstealers

Updated: June 30, 2025

But neither his commands nor his example could infuse courage into that mob of cowstealers. He was left almost alone, and retired from the bank in despair. Further down the river Antrim's division ran like sheep at the approach of the English column. Whole regiments flung away arms, colours and cloaks, and scampered off to the hills without striking a blow or firing a shot,

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3